And it's very good, a story of two teenage girls in a repressive, devoutly religious upper-middle-class environment who live in a sort of self-contained fantasy of their own making, rarely allowing the real world to touch them. Specifically, it was attacked for being blasphemous. Last week, I was watching DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL, a French drama that was inspired by the same bizarre New Zealand murder case as "Heavenly Creatures." In spite of its awful title (a good name for an exploitation film-not so good for this), it's quite good and became notorious in its day for running afoul of even lax French censorship. Of late, the writing, unfortunately, seems to be on the wall for a lot of them but what a run they've had! I've seen dozens and perhaps hundreds of movies as a consequence of their efforts that I probably never would have seen otherwise. There are still dozens of small companies out there turning out celluloid oddities from around the world. I fear it's running down, now, exactly as happened with VHS when it became overly mainstream. The birth of DVD brought about a Golden Age for lovers of weird and wonderful cinema. Here's a piece I wrote this past spring about one of the best DVD labels for which any lover of weird and wonderful cinema from around the world could ask:įor the serious cinematic archaeologist, DVD has been a gift from the gods, even more so than the early days of VHS.
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